Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, NY 6/27:
LPG would be moved by rail daily over Watkins Glen Park
Gas extracted from Seneca Lake storage would travel through Watkins Glen State Park east
A gas storage proposal along Seneca Lake calls for trains — each loaded with pressurized and explosive cargoes of butane and propane — to cross daily over a bridge spanning Watkins Glen State Park.
After crossing the bridge, most of the liquefied propane gas (LPG) trains will head east, traveling along Norfolk Southern tracks through Corning, Elmira, Owego, Johnson City and Binghamton.
While trains with hazardous cargoes are under scrutiny across North America, the chief concern among some public officials with the proposal is the 80-year-old open-decked bridge spanning the gorge 75 feet in the air.
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